Книги - экономические условия

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Book DescriptionIn this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan"s invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China"s emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in...

Book DescriptionAt the beginning of the 1990s, a massive speculative asset bubble burst in Japan, leaving the nation"s banks with an enormous burden of nonperforming loans. Banking crises have become increasingly common across the globe, but what was distinctive about the Japanese case was the...

A bold corporate and environmental history, Green Empire examines the intersection of one of the most ambitious players in Florida"s real estate market with the state"s last frontier--the quiet natural spaces of the Panhandle. Since the Great Depression, the St. Joe Company (formerly...

For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition for authoritarian leaders. Yet, as a result of reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, new political institutions have emerged that now...

"What was the revolution of the 1990s for Russia?" writes Yegor Gaidar. "Was it a hard but salutary road toward the creation of a workable democracy with workable markets, a way for Russia to develop and survive in the twenty-first century? Or was it theprologue to another closed...

Faith in the free market--the idea that, for instance, profit-seeking managed care companies will improve the health care delivery system--has become a basic tenet of public policy debate. But as Joel Blau demonstrates in this eye-opening book, so-called"free market" programs have been a...

"I love you according to my bond," says Cordelia to her father in King Lear. As the play turns out, Cordelia proves to be an exemplary and loving daughter. A bond is both a legal or financial obligation, and a connection of mutual love. How are these things connected? In As You Like It...

This book estimates the effects of economic conditions on the behavior of individual voters and on the outcomes of 42 elections in 15 countries. The conventional wisdom that poor economic conditions hurt governing parties is too simplistic. It does not hold for junior parties in coalition...

This distinctive textbook combines comprehensive coverage of the key policy areas of the European Union with analysis of individual countries, including the recent accession countries and Turkey. Part I analyzes the economic bases for the rise of the European Union from its origins in the...